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Earthly Blog
Company blog · earthly.dev/blog · on HN as vladaionescuprogrammingproductivity
Earthly Blog is the company blog at earthly.dev, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2021, 108 different Hacker News readers have linked it 226 times, most often “Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Turn your AGENTS.md, engineering standards, and process docs into deterministic enforcement in AI authoring loops and on PRs — in minutes, not quarters.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds21 people · 30 mentions · first linked 2021-04-16
- Earthly Shutting Down Earthfiles6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-04-16
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-07-17
- An Introduction to JQ5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24
- Earthly Switches to Open-Source5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
- What chroot taught me about containers5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-11-08
- Green vs. Brown Programming Languages4 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- Rust, Ruby, and the Art of Implicit Returns4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-01-04
- Watch People Doing the Thing4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
- Validate Your YAML4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
What Hacker News says?
> Say you don't use the helper function. Do you think you've avoided coupling? > The thing is, you're already coupled. Even if you don't use it. In the case of using multiple services, your auth service would need some changes. Now, whether those need to be done in a somewhat small service that's written in Spring Boot, launches in 5 seconds and can be debugged pretty easily due to very well known and predictable su…
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on “Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases”Submitted Don't Feed the Thought Leaders as a story · 795 points
HN discussionMy problem with this is that it doesn't explain a lot. You can manually make a vector of a word and then step wise get up to word2vec approach and then document embedding. My post[1] does some of the first part and this great word2vec post[2] dives into it in more detail. [1] https://earthly.dev/blog/cosine_similarity_text_embeddings/ [2] https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/
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on “Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer”Submitted Understanding Awk as a story · 599 points
HN discussion> It feels like it doesn't come with a lot of the baggage you get with other, longer-lived languages. Doesn't this mean that you are currently simply in the sweet spot where the language is usable but also not bloated yet? As in, it could all change in a decade and therefore isn't an intrinsic quality of the language itself, but merely the passage of time. I recall this blog post exploring the possible correlation b…
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on “Flutter 3”Submitted What chroot taught me about containers as a story · 501 points
HN discussionNever tried myself but this is the most serious attempt I’ve seen on alternative docker syntax https://earthly.dev/ You also have mockerfiles, being more of a proof of concept if I understand correctly https://matt-rickard.com/building-a-new-dockerfile-frontend/
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on “`COPY –chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%”Submitted Green vs. Brown Programming Languages as a story · 438 points
HN discussionHave folks seen success with https://earthly.dev/ as a tool in their dev cycle?
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on “We're Leaving Kubernetes”Submitted Command line tools for productive programmers as a story · 427 points
HN discussionA bit OT: The post links to the tutorial "An Introduction to JQ" at [1]. Somewhere inside the tutorial, array operators are introduced like this: > jq lets you select the whole array [], a specific element [3], or ranges [2:5] and combine these with the object index if needed. This is not supposed to be criticism on this particular tutorial (I've seen this kind of description quite often), but I could imagine this t…
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on “Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq”Submitted An Introduction to JQ as a story · 420 points
HN discussionI found it hard to approach at first, but I think it was just the lack of material that worked through simple examples step by step. I ended up writing my own guide to it, that in my unbiased opinion makes it easier to get the point where in-depth examples and language descriptions are easier to understand. Edit: Oh, wow, it's even mentioned in this article. Maybe I should read before commenting. https://earthly.dev…
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on “Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq”Submitted The other kind of staff software engineer as a story · 419 points
HN discussionI wrote an article subtitled "llms flatten steep learning curves": https://earthly.dev/blog/future-is-rusty/
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on “LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024”Submitted Beating TimSort at Merging as a story · 282 points
HN discussionEarthly itself looks pretty useful too: https://earthly.dev/
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on “Command line tools for productive programmers”Submitted One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions as a story · 264 points
HN discussionDuring the past few months I wrote a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes. I'm not too sure Dagger would have saved that much time for me unless there was already a fully setup service already being sold. The main issue see so far is that I'd also want bringing up a CI instance of the service the same was as new prod (backup) cluster. All of that is written in Terraform already (and GitHub…
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on “Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines”Submitted Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds as a story · 223 points
HN discussionThis seems similar to what https://earthly.dev is doing?
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on “Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines”Submitted LXC vs. Docker as a story · 217 points
HN discussionMany have mentioned just, but I'm a much bigger fan of Earthly [0]. It allows you to write something similar to a Makefile, but everything runs in Docker. This gets you isolated builds with parallelism and caching built-in. I've found it to be great especially for small to medium projects. For some examples, I use it to publish my personal site/blog [1] and to build a C/C++/Fortran/Rust cross-compiler targeting macO…
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on “I Like Makefiles”Submitted When to use Bazel? as a story · 212 points
HN discussion> Java is an extremely mature piece of technology, and having used it on the enterprise, I can attest that few things come close on flexibility and stability. Very much agreed, as long as you don't have to deal with legacy projects with Java 8 to Java 11 migration, which might sour the view of the language as a whole for some folks. I think Java doesn't get as much love nowadays due to some of the frameworks having…
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on “Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making”Submitted Bullshit Software Projects as a story · 174 points
HN discussionFor a description of the other type of Staff Engineer, see this post that was on HN a few months ago: https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/
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on “Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)”Submitted Running Containers on AWS Lambda as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI think you want oathtool. You can also use python's pyotp.totp.now() https://earthly.dev/blog/multi-factor-auth/
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on “TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch”Submitted Build Pong in Your Terminal with Go for Some Reason as a story · 149 points
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